The Martial Unity

In the past two weeks and more, Rui had beaten all the small and medium fries with ease. The theory he had come up with had turned out to be remarkably accurate. He hadn't run into a single top-level Martial Apprentice at all in the past two weeks. But he suspected that to change soon, the number of mid-level Martial Apprentices were almost running out, any time now he would begin being pit against the top tier Martial Apprentices.

His prediction had come to be true.

Suddenly, the doors to the facility opened, drawing the attention of the contestants and staff members.

What drew their attention was the force of mind that they'd felt. Squire Kyrie, who was the head supervisor of the preliminary contest walked in. Behind her, a team of support staff members pushed in a rolling notice board.

"Martial Apprentices." She addressed all of them. "Gather around."

Everyone wordlessly heeded, curious as to what was going on.

"The preliminary contest has reached its final stretch." She remarked. "A representative needs to be chosen soon. Thus, the Martial Academy has expedited the scheduling and has pre-scheduled all the remaining matches of the preliminary contest."

She waved her hand, gesturing at the notice board as the staff unveiled it. "All remaining matches have been scheduled. We will provide all of you with a timetable containing the schedules of your own battles. You will be expected to appear ten minutes before your match. Failing to appear at the scheduled time will result in an automatic loss, so do not be tardy. You will have access to healing and rejuvenation potions, so do not be tardy, there will be no second chances."

The announcement caused a wave of tension to spread through the crowd. The staff member immediately began handing the Martial Apprentices their timetables, it was far too inconvenient to skim through the dozens of matchups scheduled every day looking for one's own each day.

"This..." Rui subconsciously murmured as he glanced at his own timetable.

From that day forth, he was scheduled to have only one fight per day. But that wasn't the eye-drawing part.

Each of his opponents were people who had perfect scores!

All wins and zero losses.

not have been possible if these Martial Apprentices had faced each other at some point. They, like him, had

of them had lost atleast one match breaking their win streak. These Martial Apprentices weren't weak, but were clearly

a grin crept onto his

battle for the representative

the first twenty days of the preliminary contest was merely to filter out the losers who never had a chance in the first place. The scoreboard after twenty days

through the list of names

Feela Garron.

Jane Francis.

Avi Seth.

Sahar Kal.

Fae Dullahan.

Hever Mendelieve.

Sarron Malcolm.

Vivian Dufresne.

Lala Sec.

Nel.

Kane Arrancar.

in eleven

of them came from illustrious Martial families

he found curious was that his very last match was scheduled

second-to-last match was scheduled against

scheduled to fight Fae six

three were the most threatening to him all out